Modal Auxiliary - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: modal auxiliarymodal auxiliary
Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English such as can may will shall must might could would or should which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood2 such as uncertainty possibility command emphasis and obligation...
cross modal
relating to different sense modalities...
cross modality
ability to integrate information from different sense modalities...
Modality
The quality or state of being modal...
Modally
In a modal manner...
Air Force
Air Force, The (English) Air Forces (Constitution) Act, 1917, replaced the Air Board by the Air Council, and provides that it shall consist of a Secretary of State and other persons appointed in accordance with s. 8. The Air Force is subject to the Army Act, and its organization, administration and discipline is further provided for by the Act of 1917 and succeeding Acts. See also (English) Auxiliary Air Force and Air Force Reserve Act, 1924.Means officers and airmen who by their commission, warrant, terms of enrolment or otherwise, are liable to render continuously for a term air force service of the Union in every part of the world or any specified part of the world, including persons belonging to any Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force when called out on permanent service. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (iv)]...
Officer
Officer. See ARMY; NAVY. A contract between the Crown and any of its military or naval officers for services rendered or to be rendered is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49 TLR 300.It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the Air Force, and includes--(a) an officer of any Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force who is for the time being subject to this Act.(b) in relation to a person subject to this Act when serving under such conditions as may be prescribed, an officer of the regular Army or the Navy. [Air Force Act, 1950, s. 4(xxiii)]It means a president, vice-president, chairperson, vice chair-person, managing director, secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator appointed under s. 123 and includes any other person empowered under this Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, ...
epistemic
of or pertaining to epistemology as epistemic modal...
Modal
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood consisting in mode or form only relating to form having the form without the essence or reality...
modal logic
A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity possibility and obligation...
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